Chef and founder of the Craft Guild of Chefs Graduate Awards, Steve Munkley, has extended the 2018 entry deadline until next week, 8 April.

Created to “provide formal recognition of young chefs’s culinary excellence,” the Graduate Awards are open to chefs under the age of 23 across the country to test and improve the skills they have learnt at college and in their early careers, and take them to the next level.

With two examinations – Kitchen and Pastry – entrants will learn and develop at each stage, with tasks ranging from theory paper, butchery and fishmongery to creating a ‘mystery basket’ dish, classic main course and dessert.